> Born in a different time and ADHD wouldn't even be considered a real thing.

Up until the post-WWII era desk jobs were pretty rare. You'd be in a factory or a farm, or something else not-desk-related.

Anecdata: I did a working holiday in Australia and worked on a farm. No issues with ADHD or other focuses -- exercise, sunlight, no caffeine, and not-desk-related work kept me on task. I notice a big difference even now with carbs and sleep patterns, and how they effect my focus.

Genetically we're still cavemen, and are equipped to always be swatting mosquitoes and looking out for bears, not sitting still and thinking through abstract bit-shifting.

I display 100% of the issues you two listed, but for me medication hasn't helped. granted I only tried one medication for a week, but it didn't really do anything.

“Medication” is an ill-defined term because amongst the currently prescribed substances in the US and most of the EU there’s very different mechanisms-of-action. Strattera, for example, is worlds apart from Dexedrine (...or Desoxyn, if you’re an extreme case).

Most drugs need at least two weeks to start having any effect - and the drugs that are shorter-acting (AMP-family mostly) still have a “breaking-in” period before they have the desired effect.

Some people who have ADD get worse on Ritalin. Check out Healing ADD by Daniel Amen. In there you will find recommendations for 7 different types of ADD.

Meditation (and abstaining from alcohol) is the only cure for ADHD that i have found after years of misery and ritalin et al. I wish i could give this message to all the people who suffer from it. One must keep at it every day for half a year to have some success with it, so its hard.